Are you a Small Business Owner? Do you feel the overwhelm of planning your content for social media for your business?  Maybe that overwhelm manifests by way of the fact that you just DON’T plan your content for social media?

As a smart entrepreneur, you know the necessity of your brand existing on social media in this decade, and now you want to exist for SUCCESS.  I am here to help.

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to work with me, email me at hello@sydneydelucchi.com

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How to Plan your Social Media Content Like a Boss

It’s probably no news to you that continuing along the same.exact.path with the same.exact.plan will NOT yield you new results. So, are you ready to remix your plan of action when it comes to your Social Media Content?

Heck yes, or you wouldn’t be reading this post… so let’s get right into it.

There’s a few main points I want you to think about when diving into this seemingly daunting task:

1. There is NO cookie cutter plan, no secret pill, no ‘one size fits all’ content calendar… and if anyone is trying to sell you that, they are lying to you.  I’M JUST KEEPING IT REAL HERE!
2. At first, content strategizing planning and creating will be a time consuming task… BUT, do you remember learning to tie your shoes? It took you a while the first handful of times, but now you’re a pro – you know the secret tricks, and it barely takes you a fraction of the time it used to… IT IS THE SAME FOR PLANNING YOUR CONTENT! You just gotta START!
3. If you’re a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants entrepreneur, we are about to overhaul your entire business strategy! Don’t let me lose you already… Goal Setting and broad to micro spectrum strategies will keep your business afloat and almost feeling as though your social media is on autopilot.  CAN I GET A HALLELUJAH?! Now, that’s not saying this mindset shift is going to be easy peasy… but guess what?! We have a support group for that! Join my FREE ‘DL’ group (stands for The Dynamic Life Collective | Social Media Secrets) for access to a group full of small business owners and entrepreneurs trying to master content creating and strategizing JUST LIKE YOU!

Now, I should probably mention, my background in fitness and fitness instructing has my motivation and share of passionate information such as this topic, emotionally charged and motivating in a pushier way.  If you, too, are a fitness junkie, you’ll love this post!

What is your business ‘why’

No bullshit here, and I’m sure you’ve heard this before: If you don’t define your ‘why’ for what you do, and have no passion behind your business endeavors, your potential clients and anyone your posts reach WILL SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU. Plus, even more important… when the going gets challenging or you face obstacles, knowing and truly living your WHY will help you get through the funk.

I want you to write in big letters bolded, underlined, italicized: WHY you do what you do, WHAT impact you want to make on people, and your GOALS.  Post it on social media & tag me: @sydneydelucchi #theDLWHY

Establish your Business Goals

Plan Social Media Content based around your Goals:

First thing’s first, we need to know what your goals are.  As a smart entrepreneur, you know how important declaring goals are to your business. Frankly, how else would we measure our successes and those items that need more improvement?

Let’s look at three scopes of Goals to keep in mind before we dive into planning your social media: Broad, Narrow, & Micro.

Broad Scope:

Look at the YEAR ahead.  What big ticket items are on your forecast? Product launches? HUGE sales? Grand Re-openings? Etc.  Make note of these dates, and the goals.  This will come into play in the scheduling

Narrow scope:

Look at the MONTH ahead. Plan out your marketing strategies based around your monthly goals and promotions you will be running.  Make lists of each platform you reach out to your clients from (facebook, instagram, youtube, podcast, tiktok, twitter, email, etc) and create structured plans of attack to get your message out to them.

MICRO Scope:

Now, the WEEK ahead – what’s happening in Pop culture or your local community? Sometimes these things can alter how you plan out your social media content, and that’s ok! Trending topics boost post performance, so keep your eyes peeled! Maybe it’s just something as simple as a caption that needs tweaked or a hashtag that needs added to hit up current events.

Use a Organizational Outlet

Now that you’ve got your goals down, you’re ready to start looking into HOW you’re going to ORGANIZE your amazing information we are about to plan.

We LOVE Trello, and if you’ve never heard of it before, it’s time you tried it!  You can download our FREE Social Media Content Planning And Organization Board here. But make sure you hop into the DL fb group for support for this DIY board!

Gimme the goods!

Do you use a different organizational outlet? Share with me in the comments what your go to is!

Content Creation: Declare your 5 Topics

This is a biggie.  Before you start creating content, we want to establish some categories to maximize batching.  Each brand or business has at least 5 topics or content categories that all their posts they will share will fall into.

For example, my content categories are: Tips, relatable quotes, keepin it real, Resources to share, doodles, and @dailySquishreport.

Don’t be afraid to make very BROAD categories.  Just be sure whatever you are posting, you are adding value and solving problems/pain points for your following.

Batch your content

AKA MASS PRODUCE your content! Sit down and tackle a category a day! Take an hour on a Sunday to Batch all your Motivational quote posts for the month, or even the next three! Once your mind is thinking within this category, the captions will start to flow out of your fingers.  Use your Trello board to organize and store this content you’re creating.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Need additional tips on Batching? You guessed it, hop on into the The DL

Read more about batching content here.

 

Schedule your Content

Now that everything is batched and curated, the last step is to SCHEDULE that beautiful content!!! There are a TON of specialized post scheduling services out there, and we are still searching for our ABSOLUTE favorite to share with you.  Currently, you can’t go wrong scheduling natively from your Facebook Creator Studio & Instagram Creator Studio.

You can also look into hooking up Zapier to your Trello board and creating a Zap to auto publish or schedule if you move a card from one list to the other. (Did that blow your mind?! Yeah, mine too!)  I warned you that the sky is the limit with Trello! If that’s too techy for you, no worries, we have something in the works!

I highly recommend to utilize the Facebook Creator studio (there’s also an Instagram one) rather than using a third party app.  Need help or guidance on this? Once again, the DL fb group is where you need to be for support and questions! So if you haven’t joined it yet, come on in!

 

BONUS: our ‘tribe’ of bossbabe/brawn entrepreneurs are always learning, always ready to collaborate, and down to support YOU along your journey to small biz success.  We can’t wait to see you there!

Want to read more details on batching content? Read this post.

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xoxo,

Syd

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